Avatar Rewatch Awards

Hello Avatar fans, Airspeed Prime here with the results of the Avatar Rewatch Awards. To give the backstory on this, a few weeks ago we finished the sites big rewatch of the show. So I came up with the idea to do a series of awards, every day I posted an award on the site and on our Facebook page and people voted. Now they are all finished so it is time to finally give the results.

Sokka wants to know the results of all that voting.

To work out the winners and runner ups I just added up the number of votes each thing got, if there was a tie I tried to break it with Facebook likes but even after that there were still some ties.

Best Book

Runner Up: Earth – The consistency of the episodes is a huge plus for Book 2

Winner: Fire – Epicness won it for Book 3

Best Voice Actor

Zach Tyler Eisen voice of Avatar Aang

Jack DeSena voice of Sokka

Runner Up: Tie between Jack DeSena and Zach Tyler Eisen

Mako Iwamatsu voice of Iroh for Book 1 and 2. He sadly died shortly after recording for Book 2, he got a great tribute at the end of Iroh's Tale. RIP

Winner: Mako Iwamatsu

Funniest Episode

Everyone loved the way the show made fun of itself in this play.

Runner up: The Ember Island Players

This episode wins because of the sheer craziness and randomness of the dreams.

Winner: Nightmares and Daydreams

Best Character Development

Sokka goes from being a guy who thinks he is an awesome warrior to actually being an awesome warrior. He also has some luck with the ladies.

Runner up: Sokka

Zuko and Aang tie for the best Character development, Zuko make the most obvious development from episode 1 to 61, but Aang finally fully takes on his role as the Avatar and becomes more wise and mature.

Winner: Tie between Zuko and Aang

Best One Shot Character

Who doesn't love Meng ?, despite only being in one episode you really feel for her when she finds out Aang doesn't like her in the same way she likes him. Hopefully she finds her true love in the future.

Runner Up: Meng

Chong is just awesome in human form, his go with the flow attitude and lack of seriousness is infectious. Where is he now ?

Winner: Chong

Best Fight

Definitely one of the best fights that shows Waterbending at its best, a master against an inexperienced yet fast learning bender.

Runner up: Katara vs Pakku in 118

Everything about this fight is epic, the music, the power and beauty of the bending and the fact that it is brother against sister for the throne.

Winner: Zuko vs Azula Agni Kai in the finale

Best Episode

Runner Up: Siege Of The North (Both parts as one)- Book 1 slowly introduced us to the world of Avatar, in the finale we were introduced to the magnitude of the task at hand.

Winner: Into The Inferno and Avatar Aang (we included them as one episode)- Amazing fights, emotional, tense. A perfect ending to the series.

Best Character

Sokka and Toph tie as runner ups, Sokka is the brains and one non bender in Team Avatar and also the Funny/Sarcastic guy, Toph is an amazing character so tough and snappy.

Runner Up: Tie between Sokka and Toph

Zuko wins best Character, his incredible journey good to bad to good again then back to bad and finally good again is amazing, we really grow to feel for him.

Winner: Zuko

Best City/Place

Ember Island is home to a beautiful beach with mysterious powers that bring out the true you. A perfect holiday location.

Runner Up: Ember Island

Omashu is a very unique city, with an amazing postal system consisting of lots of massive chutes all the way up the city.

Winner: Omashu

Most Emotional Scene

Do I need to give a reason ? One Word KATAANG !

Runner Up: THE KISS between Aang and Katara in the finale

An extremely emotional scene, Katara calms Aang down as he is in a fury after finding out who stole Appa.

Winner: Katara calming down Aang in the desert when he finds the sandbenders who stole Appa

Best Animal

Dragons are the Original source of Firebending

Runner up: Dragon

Sky Bison are the Origin of Airbending.

Winner: Sky Bison

Best Vehicle/machine

A waterbending powered Submarine invented by Sokka and The Mechanist is a very innovative invention in the Avatar world.

Runner Up: Submarine

The Fire Nations huge Airships made from the stolen designs of war balloons by The Mechanist give the Fire Nation Air power.

Winner: Fire Nation Airships

Funniest Moment

Sokka takes command of an Airship and tells the crew to gather together for hot cakes and sweet cream before dropping them out of the bomb bay.

Runner Up: Sokka as Airship captain

Sokka, showing us why not to drink anything you see. Your favourite moment

Winner: Sokka on Cactus Juice

Most Silly/random moment

It was not weird enough that Momo and Appa were talking but when the sword fight started that is when it got awesome.

Runner up: Momo and Appa Swordfight

Proving random is funny

Winner: Sokka on Cactus Juice

Worst Episode

Runner Up: The Puppetmaster- After The Great Divide people struggled to think of another episode not as good, this just came out.

Winner: The Great Divide-All episodes of Avatar are good, but some are better than others. This one is just bottom of the pile.

Worst Character

Never has there been a character like Hahn, he exists to be hated and succeeds.

Runner up: Hahn

For being just stupid in terms of his "just us" system and his lack of knowledge about his beloved Chin, he is the worst Character. So annoying.

Winner: Mayor Tong

Best Villain

Really came from nowhere in the series but managed to be right up there with all the best villains, he killed Jet which puts him very high up.

Runner Up: Long Feng

IMO the face of the enemy in Avatar, Ozai remains in the background for most of the show. Azula is so calculating and able to manipulate anyone even the runner up Long Feng.

Winner: Azula

The Coolest Form of bending throughout the series

Aang fights and wins against a volcano using an amazing airbending display.

Airbending: Aang putting out the volcano in 114

Katara's epic Water Dome using rain to keep out rain wins for Waterbending.

Waterbending: Katara’s rain ball

Toph's unique Earthbending style wins, her use of Southern Praying Mantis because of her blindness makes her style the best.

Earthbending: Toph’s bending style

Zuko redirects lightning at his father. Such an epic scene using the technique of his uncle his true father figure against his father is brilliant.

Firebending: Zuko redirecting Lightning at Ozai

Saddest Character Death

Yue give her lifeforce back to the Moon Spirit, in turn becoming the Moon Spirit. A true sacrifice.

Runner Up: Yue

Jet is mortally injured by Long Feng, Katara is unable to heal his massive injuries. A tragic character who finally fights for good only to be killed.

Winner: Jet

Unresolved Plot Point you want answered

Iroh notices the spirit of Roku's Dragon Fang.We want to know about his trip to the spirit world and his past. Badly.

Runner Up: Iroh’s past and Spirit world journey.

Ursa, the biggest mysteries of Avatar revolve around her, Is she still alive ? what did she do to save Zuko and get Ozai to Fire Lord ?

Winner: Ursa’s fate

Most Attractive characters

Katara instantly catches the eye of Aang, for obvious reasons.

Jin has a natural beauty. She has a crush on Zuko.

Female Runner Up: Tie between Katara and Jin

One of the many reasons why Ty Lee won.

Female Winner: Ty Lee

Jet was a close runner up, charming and dashing, what is not to like ?

Male Runner up: Jet

Zuko wins, his legion of fan girls led by Fellow Moderator Tracy helped him to win.

Male Winner: Zuko

Best piece of music from the Soundtrack

Runner Up: Aang faces Ozai- The music like the fight itself did not let us down.

Winner: Last Agni Kai- A perfect piece of music for this emotional fight scene, simple yet powerful music.

My name is Morgan Bannon, I am a 22 Year old Male from Ireland and I am the Site Super Moderator. I have watched and been a fan of Avatar since it premiered. I am also a news post writer for the site and host the site's podcast, The Avatar Online Podcast. My strength as an Avatar fan would be just a good knowledge of Avatar Canon and characters.

Great! Awsome picks everyone love this Topic! And I gotta thank everyone for continuing what i started so long ago! I know i left for a bit and i felt bad about that but these Avatar Awards are Cool! Thanks for continuing the awards Morgan/Jordan and the avatar fans!
Hopefully There will be a Korra Awards too? (There will be) π

Yeah that was my plan when the rewatch finished, I didn’t just want it to be watch all the episodes and it is over, this way people can analyse the whole series while we get the Avatar Awards thread up and running again.

Well apart from The Great Divide it is very hard to find another episode that is much lower quality than the rest. Shows the overall quality of the show that only one episode stands out as not as high quality.

The Painted Lady is not filler as it gives more Katara character development, it shows her amazing compassion even if it is not the best thing for the group.
I have said this loads of times but there is no Filler in Avatar, any episode that is light on plot is good character development or world building, even The Great Divide shows Aang taking on his role as the Avatar for the first time and resolving peoples problems.

As much as I want to agree… I do believe the Great Divide is the one true ‘filler’ episode of the series. I wasn’t really a fan of the childish bickering between the two tribes, as well as the stale “fairy tale-esque” moral that was left after watching. And plot-wise not much happened..

Although Painted Lady isn’t my favorite episode, I still enjoyed it over the Great Divide.

And I thought the Puppet Master was really well done haha! Just wanted to share my opinion!

It may just be that my definition of filler is harder to fulfil. For me it is filler if there is nothing to advance anything in the show at all plot or character development.
The Great Divide was Aang’s first time stepping fully into his role as the Avatar and solving peoples problems, he realised that their fighting was more childish bickering than an actually hatred, so what better way to solve their problems with that made up story.
The canyon Guide also give Aang some advice, “It is not easy being impartial” (paraphrase). Which is definitely true for the Avatar, he couldn’t take sides, he had to be fair.
I am in a huge minority here, even the creators didn’t like it as much, it is very near the bottom on my top 61 episodes, but I would never skip this episode in a rewatch.

okay so i agree with starbender. i loved On ji and she should’ve won best oneshot. also i disagree with the Runner up for best character music. it should have been the Flameos in the Headband. that was amazing music. & i actually liked the puppetmaster a lot. so the runner up could’ve been ..well there shouldn’t have even been a category for “WORST EPISODE” with avatar because every single episode was AMAZING and brought a lot to the story. & also, the funniest moment should have at least had one from Ember Island Players. that episode was so funny. other than that, i agree with most of the other answers. π although if you were counting deaths that we didn’t see i would’ve put Lu Ten for the runner up. Or actually Avatar Roku’s death was really sad too. anyways, great job! i seriously loved this whole awards thing!

okay first off, i completely agree with Starbender! On Ji should’ve been best one shot and then Meng. On ji was a great character. i loved her! & the runner up for saddest death could have been Avatar Roku’s or if it was for a death we didn’t see but were affected by, it could have been Lu Ten. but i do agree Jet’s death was by far the saddest. oh & best music by a character runner up could have been the Flameos in the headband. their music was amazing. π oh and one of the funniest moments should have been one where zuko’s socially awkwardness comes into play. it’s hilarious. like on his date with Jin, or in Western air temple when he tries to convince the Gang that he’s actually good. or one in the ember island players. that ep was hilarious! but the one category i disagree with the most is the fact that puppetmaster was runner up. The episode that should have been runner up was..WELL actually there shouldn’t have even been a “WORST EPISODE” category. EVERY SINGLE EPISODE in avatar: tla was amazing! & each brought something great to the plot and characters. so there really aren’t any bad A:TLA eps IMO. but other than that, i agree with most other categories! & really enjoyed these awards. thank you for keeping ATLA alive. i love this show. although i still do feel that Ember Island Players should have won more moments. π and emotional scene runner up could be Lu ten and Iroh in Tales of Ba Sing se. but anyways GREAT JOB with the choices! π

i also believe one of the best fights was Aang&The BLUE SPIRIT(ZUKO) vs. Zhao and the Yun Yan Archers. that was an AMAZING fight scene and it was really epic to see Zuko & Aang beat those firebenders. also, i believe another really sad death was Katara’s mom. i would also really like to know more about the whole “KILLING OF THE AIRNOMADS” and if there are any left? i really hope some survived. but it was nice to know a little about them in the storm. plus some more on Koh would’ve been nice. those are some crazy unsolved mysteries.

i also just love the epicness of whenever aang gets in the avatar state, then opens his eyes and theyre GLOWING, then he just says something with all those voices combined. i dunno. just makes me want to say “yeah, you GO Aang!!!!”

I agree with almost everything except that the western air temple is my all time favorite setting in the series. That, and I personally find Ty-Lee to be one of the most unattractive female in the show.

I actually liked the replacement voice for Iroh better than the original.. So I feel like he should have won
and runner up should have been Sokka. His voice actor is very eccentric. I can imagine it strained his voice a lot to talk so over-the-top all the time. I love Zuko’s voice too but.. he would be third for me if there was a third.

Really you prefer Greg Baldwin to Mako (RIP) , that is the first time I have ever heard that. I am interested to know why ?
Mainly because for me anyway, Mako was Iroh it was his voice acting that made Iroh so amazing, so the change in voice while a decent replacement was very obvious.

I actually didn’t even know the voice actor was different until after I watched the series and I read it somewhere so when I re-watched the series I kept my ears open and noticed a bit of a difference aaand I just felt the third season voice was better. I don’t think the personality of Iroh changed one bit. Like I said, I didnt even notice at first so.. It was totally 100% just about what voice I liked better.

Also Jin should have been one of the best one- shot characters. She only appeared once right? I mean the characters that won deserved it. I just liked Jin better.

I still don’t get why Zuko redirecting Ozai’s lightening won the award for best Firebending.

It’s more a trick than it is a power. The other winners won because it was a display of incredible power whilst the Firebending winner was more like a strong character moment not a strong bending moment.

That scene was just a cheering for Zuko, not his bending abilities. While you’re at it, why don’t you just proclaim Sokka as the best swordfighter in the whole series.

I believe I choose Iroh’s epic charged Fire Blast that took down the wall of Ba Sing Se as my coolest piece of Firebending.
That one had power, a great setting comet assisted, and given how massive we know those walls are from the Ba Sing Se story arcs we get a full extent of the power there, the Drill took its time getting through the wall yet Iroh took it down with one blast.
Though Ozai’s burning earth stream of Fire, and Zuko’s trademark breakdance flare of fire are also cool.